April 30, 1974 – A book listing serial
numbers of the $1 million in ransom bills paid in the kidnapping of Mrs.
Virginia Piper was mailed by the FBI to 8,000 service stations and on- and
off-sale liquor outlet locations in Minnesota. The serial-number books were
previously mailed to all banks in the U.S.
As a result, by June 14, 1974, there
were reports to the FBI on some of the $20 Federal Reserve notes paid as ransom
in the July 27, 1972, kidnapping of Mrs. Piper. The Piper case reportedly
remains the only unsolved kidnapping since the FBI has assumed jurisdiction in
such cases.
St. Paul Dispatch; “Ransom, Money
Numbers Circulated”; June 14, 1974; p. 24.
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